Margarita Jover

Margarita Jover is Co-founder of ‘aldayjover, architecture and landscape’. aldayjover works on projects of architecture, urban design and landscape attending to the specific character of sites and their relation to urban and natural dynamics. The architectural and public space projects are conceived as catalysts of future transformations of the city and the territory. The work is particularly renowned by its leadership in a new approach to the relation between cities and rivers as well as for the urban integration of industrial and transportation infrastructure. Urban riverfronts are conceived as socio-ecological spaces in which negotiation between floods and civic life is possible without catastrophe; industrial typologies are integrated into the urban and civic realm ensuring transparency and healthier environments; and transportation infrastructure offers opportunities to transform public space and the city fabric. These projects are considered ‘hybrid-landscapes’, ‘hybrid-architectures’ and ‘hybrid-infrastructures’, proposed as cultural artifacts of the Anthropocene. aldayjover has also worked in several restorations of highly valued historical buildings developing a sense of continuity with history, as well as in social housing always intertwined with the arrangement of different scales of collective and public spaces. The firm has received, amongst others, the ‘European Urban Public Space Prize’ (2002), the FAD Prize for ‘City and Landscape’ (2009); The Prize for International Urban Integration ATP (2011), finalist of the ‘International and European Landscape Architecture Biennales Prizes’ (2008) and (2013), the Ibero-American Architecture Biennale (2004); and nominated for the European Union Architecture Prize-Mies van der Rohe Award (2009).